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JAMES BLOND: Daniel Craig, the new James Bond, says that when he left drama school “the only jobs were for boys in floppy fringes who went to Eton” (Profile, last week). While it is always inspiring when lads from the wrong side of the tracks find fame against the odds, the dull reality is that Craig left drama school not in 1947 but in 1991 — a time when the acting profession was dominated by working-class northerners and the best chance of employment for an Etonian with thespian ambitions (however beguiling his haircut) was probably as a sales assistant in an antique shop. — Antony Edmonds, Waterlooville.

NHS STAFFING: In your article Britain “still poaches nurses” (News, October 9) the MTA Medical recruitment agency in Johannesburg suggested jobs were available at the burns centre at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In fact, QVH does not use the agency, has not asked